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Films

25 to Life

William Brawner was infected with HIV before he turned two and kept it a secret for over twenty years. Now he struggl...
Barefoot Revolution

Noujaim Films presents Barefoot Revolution, an intimate cinema verite film which follows the life-changing journey of...
Green Shall Overcome

Green Shall Overcome is a 90-minute documentary about Van Jones, the controversial environmental activist. Jones has...
Inocente

In America today, one in fifty kids is homeless. For most of us, they are invisible. The documentary feature Inocente...
Oil & Water

Oil & Water is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hug...
Out in the Silence

Out in the Silence is more than a movie; it's part of the growing movement for justice and equality in rural and...
The Revolutionary Optimists

Children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Using dance and street theater, Amlan Ganguly empowers children t...
To Be Heard

To Be Heard is the story of 3 high-school students who find their way into a radical poetry workshop in the South Bro...

Organisations

A Home Within

A Home Within promotes the emotional health of foster children and youth and those who care for them by creating and ...
Accountability Counsel

In the face of corporate human rights and environmental abuses, Accountability Counsel seeks to use, strengthen, and ...
Active Voice

Active Voice uses film, television and multimedia to spark social change from grassroots to grass tops. Our team of s...
Adaptive Edge

We enable leaders, organizations and groups to anticipate, adapt and innovate for the future - and make better decisi...
Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors/New Venture Fund

Arabella Advisors is one of the leading philanthropy services firms supporting the efforts of individual, family, ins...
Ashoka's Youth Venture

Ashoka's Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people as they start their own sustainable social ...
BAVC Producer's Institute for New Media Technologies

The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) supports and inspires social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories th...
Benetech

Benetech is a nonprofit technology company that creates innovative solutions to challenging social issues. Benetech&#...
Black Coalition on AIDS

The Black Coalition on AIDS (BCA) focuses on reducing health disparities in the Black community, particularly the spr...
Blue Shield of California Foundation

Improve the lives of Californians, particularly underserved populations, by making health care effective, safe, and a...
Boxgirls International

Boxing improves girls' strength and resilience and allows them to better negotiate the urban environment.
Box...
BRITDOC Foundation

BRITDOC is a social entrepreneurship organisation that exists to nurture new talent and new approaches in documentary...
California Council for the Humanities

The California Council for the Humanities (CCH) connects Californians to ideas and one another in order to understand...
California Newsreel

California Newsreel is the oldest social issue film distribution/production organization in the US. Our interest are...
Call2Action

It is Call2Action's mission to provide the best viral tool for any cause campaign. We are dedicated to furtherin...
Capital Impact

Capital Impact backs socially minded entrepreneurs with expertise, equity and anchor investments in market-based stra...
Catapult Film Fund

Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. ...
Cause & Affect

To create critical mass for high impact social change.
Center for Asian American Media

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey t...
Center for Investigative Reporting

Founded in 1977, the mission of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is to produce high-quality unique in...
Chicken & Egg Pictures

Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non profit production company dedicated to supporting women film...
Circadian Media Lab (CML)

Cirdadian Media Lab (CML) is a media production company and strategic consultancy in service to helping people evolve...
Citizen Engagement Lab

Co-Founded by filmmaker, Ian Inaba, CEL develops digital media organizing initiatives that engage everyday people in ...
CitizenGlobal

Sights. Sounds. Images. Ideas. No matter the spectrum of media, Citizen- Global directly connects you with calls to a...
Compathos Foundation

Compathos explores creative ways to inspire action, advocacy and global citizenry through the arts and purposeful med...
Craigslist Foundation

Craigslist Foundation connects people to the resources they need to strengthen communities and neighborhoods.
CrossCurrents Foundation

To promote social and economic justice including effective and socially relevant public art as part of our overall ef...
Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Mobilize effective solutions to the world's toughest problems, through analytically rigorous strategic advisory ...
David Haas

Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) is an association of grantmakers committed to advancing the field of me...
Democracy Alliance

Launched in 2005, the Democracy Alliance (DA) was created to build progressive infrastructure that could help counter...
Earth Pledge Foundation

to promote, educate and demonstrate practices and innovations that sustain the planet
Edelman

Edelman is the world's largest PR firm, delivering award winning campaigns for a roster of stellar clients. The ...
Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA

By supporting today’s emerging models and mindsets, we hope to generate a path for individuals’ meaningful and sustai...
Entreprenuers Foundation

It is the mission of the Entrepreneurs Foundation to develop corporate citizenship and philanthropic efforts that le...
Environmental Film Fund / Doc Partners LLC

The mission of Environmental Media Fund is to promote public awareness and education and effect cultural change throu...
Equality California

Since it was founded in 1998, Equality California has strategically moved California from a state with extremely limi...
Face Value

Face Value is creating a society where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families are fully rec...
Facing History and Ourselves

Facing History and Ourselves delivers classroom strategies, resources and lessons that inspire young people to take r...
Film Angels / CMEA

CMEA is a venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary people.
Film Angels is an angel network that invests...
Film Independent / FIND

Film Independent champions the cause of independent film and supports a community of artists who embody diversity, in...
Filmmakers Collaborative

Filmmakers Collaborative (FC) was founded in 1986 to provide fiscal sponsorship to independent filmmakers all over th...
Fleishhacker Foundation

The Fleishhacker Foundation makes grants to support arts & culture, and precollegiate education, in the San Franc...
Free Range Studios

We enable our clients to communicate key messages and empower individuals to transform society through the innovative...
Free the Children

Free The Children is a by youth, for youth organization founded on the belief that young people have the power to cha...
Friends of Tilonia, Inc.

Tilonia is a social enterprise creating livelihoods for artisans in rural India.
Through use of the internet, we ...
Full Circle Fund

Full Circle Fund is an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next generation of community leaders and dri...
Game Changers Project - Forward Ever Media Center

The GAME CHANGERS PROJECT is a national media fellowship program for emerging black filmmakers in partnership with co...
Games That Give

GamesThatGive, Inc. develops and distributes web based video games that donate to charity during gameplay.
Gauger+Associates

A dynamic and collaborative San Francisco marketing communications firm specializing in advertising, branding, st...
Give2Asia

Give2Asia is the leading philanthropic service provider for donor-advised giving across the Asia Pacific region. We o...
GLAAD

GLAAD amplifies the voice of the LGBT community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media a...
Global Citizen Year

Global Citizen Year (GCY) empowers high school graduates with a global perspective on themselves, their nation and th...
Global Fund for Women

The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social ju...
Global Philanthropy Forum

Global Philanthropy Group advises the world's leading philanthropists. We work with high net worth individuals...
Google

To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google Earth Outreach

Google Earth Outreach helps nonprofit and public benefit organizations visualize their cause and tell their story usi...
Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media

Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) is an association of grantmakers committed to advancing the field of me...
Green For All

Green For All is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through a clean energy economy. We work in collab...
GRITtv with Laura Flanders

GRITtv is a daily, 30-minute discussion for people who want to make a difference. GRITtv reaches millions of viewers ...
Hartley Film Foundation

Hartley Film Foundation's non-profit mission is to cultivate, support and subdistribute the best documentaries o...
IFP

After debuting with a program in the 1979 New York Film Festival, the nonprofit IFP has evolved into the nation’s old...
Impact Partners

Impact Partners is committed to financing independent cinema that addresses pressing social issues. We bring together...
International Documentary Association

Founded in 1982, IDA is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that promotes nonfiction filmmakers, and is dedicated to increasing pu...
ISIS

ISIS' mission is to help young people aged 14-29 who are most at-risk for negative health outcomes from sexually...
ITVS

The Independent Television Service funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries on public television and...
Kiva.org

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva empowers indi...
LINK TV

Link Media's mission is to engage, inform and activate citizens around the world on critical issues -- using bro...
Los Angeles Social Venture Partners

We seek to create significant, long-term social change in Los Angeles by achieving a dual mission: Expanding the Capa...
LoudSauce

LoudSauce is a social way to buy advertising space for your favorite causes. Like Kickstarter for advertising, we use...
mc² media strategies

Consultancy specializing in program development, marketing strategy, curation, strategic planning and partnerships. ...
Meetup

Meetup just launched Meetup Everywhere -- a revolutionary new platform that adds a powerful offline component to the ...
Mitchell Kapor Foundation

The Mitchell Kapor Foundation is a private foundation with the mission to ensure fairness and equity, especially in l...
Movement Strategy Center

The Movement Strategy Center brings a cohesive plan to strengthen these emerging efforts and build the progressive so...
National Geographic Television

to inspire people to care about the planet.
NCB Capital Impact

NCB Capital Impact helps people and communities reach their highest potential at every stage of life. As a national, ...
Northern California Grantmakers

Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) is an association of foundations, corporate contributions programs and other pu...
One Percent Foundation

The One Percent Foundation is building a broad-based movement of next generation philanthropists, ages 18-39, by maki...
Our Children's Earth Foundation

OCE is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the public, especially children, from the harmful effects of...
Oxfam

Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering
Post Carbon Institute

Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable worl...
Progressive Jewish Alliance

PJA educates, advocates and organizes on issues of peace, equality, diversity and justice, as a progressive voice in ...
Project Survival Media

Project Survival Media (PSM) is global youth journalism network dedicated to broadcasting stories of survival and in...
Rappaport Family Foundation

Our investments seek to engage young people in the business of leadership and governance.
Retriever Development Counsel

Kevin Johnson, principal of Retriever Development Counsel, coaches nonprofit leaders on how to be more effective in s...
ro*co films international, ro*co films educational, OWN

To identify gripping documentary narratives for the foreign media market (ro*co films international) as well as the ...
Saatchi & Saatchi NY

Part of Publicis Groupe, Saatchi & Saatchi New York is the largest agency in the global network, which spans 140 ...
Sacred Planet Films

Development and production of social- and environmental-themed documentaries
San Francisco Department of Public Health HIV Research Section

Our mission is to collaborate with communities in conducting innovative research that will guide HIV prevention local...
San Francisco Film Society

San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) is a national leader in exhibition, education and filmmaker services.
SFFS offers...
San Francisco Green Film Festival

SFGFF is the Bay Area’s only event dedicated to films that explore green issues and sustainability. Our mission is to...
San Francisco Pride

The mission of San Francisco Pride is to educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and libe...
Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc

Our mission at Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link, Inc. (SEM Link) is to promote student achievement and caree...
Shanti

Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, improving the well-being, and promoting the independence of people living...
Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and o...
Small Act

Small Act helps cause-focused organizations rock social media by building software that simplifies the management and...
smartMeme Strategy & Training Project

SmartMeme builds movements and amplifies the impact of grassroots organizing with new strategy and training resources...
SpeakOut

SpeakOut has an educational mission to educate, inspire and empower young people to become actively engaged in societ...
Stanford University School of Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine, Disaster Response and International EMS and Emergency Medicine
SUSTAINATOPIA 2011 (Miami)

Sustainatopia 2011 will take place from March 31st- April 6, 2011 at various location throughout Miami, Florida.
Par...
The 11th Hour Project

Our mission is to promote a fuller understanding of the impact of human activity within the web of interdependent liv...
The Adobe Foundation

The Adobe Foundation is a private foundation created and funded by Adobe Systems Incorporated to leverage human, tech...
The Baum Foundation

The mission of The Baum Foundation is to nurture projects in the arts, education and the environment that bring aware...
The Calvert Foundation

The Calvert Foundation is a nonprofit organization that, according to its website, uses “investment capital, rather ...
The Columbia Foundation

Columbia Foundation is dedicated to furthering the public welfare within the limits of nature. The foundation current...
The Fledgling Fund

The Fledgling Fund supports innovative media projects that can play critical roles in igniting social change. We beli...
The Hornthal Family Foundation

The Hornthal Family Foundation supports initiatives in women's health, conflict resolution, social entrepreneurs...
The Jackson Family Foundation

The thrust of The Jackson Family Foundation’s work is to support domestic and international causes designed to help u...
The John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes

The John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California...
The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread

To be a catalyst for environmental and community solutions using leading-edge convening models in a unique, world-cla...
The Leading Edge

We are a progressive global strategy firm that leverages its unparalleled research skills to unearth powerful custome...
The Peery Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen youth and families to build lives of dignity and self-reliance. We invest in and serve s...
The William James Foundation

The William James Foundation seeks to identify, support, and reward the best new ideas in sustainable business. We pr...
Tides

Tides is a values-based, social change platform that leverages individual and institutional leadership and investment...
University Impact Fund

The University Impact Fund (UIF) brings university students, investors and social entrepreneurs together in a collabo...
University of Washington Department of Bioethics and Humanities

Our mission is to improve health through scholarship, teaching and service in the fields of bioethics and the medical...
Unreasonable Institute

We enable the world's promising entrepreneurs to launch ventures future generations will remember as having defi...
Water.org

Water.org is challenging the traditional approach to assisting people in developing countries. Our goals are to draw ...
Women 2.0

Women 2.0’s mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Women 2.0 supports entrepren...
Women Donors Network

Women Donors Network is a community where women multiply their energy, their strategic savvy, and their philanthropic...
WomenArts

WomenArts is a worldwide community of artists and allies that works for empowerment, opportunity, and visibility for...
XENIA MEDIA|Chewyslist

Chewyslist, developed by XENIA MEDIA and headquartered in San Francisco, centralizes the arts and entertainment commu...
Youth Radio

Youth Radio's mission is to promote young people's intellectual, creative, and professional growth through ...
ZangZing, LLC

We are creating one place for friends and families from around the world to connect through the visual medium of phot...
Zero Divide

ZeroDivide invests in community enterprises that leverage technology to benefit people in low-income and other disadv...